Related Words for pretence

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pretense
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Noun, Noun
pretext
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Noun, Noun
pretending
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Noun, Noun, Verb
feigning
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Verb, Noun, Verb
pretension
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Verb, Noun
simulation
xx/x
Noun, Noun
guise
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Noun, Noun
semblance
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Noun
false
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Adjective
artifice
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Noun
disguise
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Noun, Verb
presumption
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Noun
charade
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Noun
dissimulation
xxx/x
Noun
illusion
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Noun
imposture
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Noun
conceit
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Noun
ruse
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Noun
scorning
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Verb
ostentation
xx/x
Noun
notion
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Noun
subterfuge
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Noun
virtue
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Noun
phoney
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Noun
insistence
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Noun
propriety
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Noun
suspecting
x/x
Verb
supposition
xx/x
Noun
scruple
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Noun
believing
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Verb
insincerity
xx/xx
Noun
posturing
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Noun
delusion
x/x
Noun
without
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Adverb
rigour
//
Noun
denying
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Verb
disregarding
xx/x
Verb
abandoning
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Verb
mockery
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Noun
protestation
xx/x
Noun
falsity
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Noun
artificiality
xx/xxx
Noun
unanimity
xx/xx
Noun
facade
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Noun
avowal
x/x
Noun
sincerity
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Noun
nonsense
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Noun
objectivity
xx/xx
Noun
concealing
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Verb
respecting
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Verb
fancying
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Verb
formality
x/xx
Noun
renouncing
x/x
Verb
duplicity
x/xx
Noun
compunction
x/x
Noun
connivance
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Noun
precondition
xx/x
Noun
falsehood
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Noun
impertinence
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Noun
fact
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Noun
disinterestedness
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Noun
contriving
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Noun
bluster
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Noun
betraying
x/x
Verb
supposing
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Verb
contrivance
x/x
Noun
piety
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Noun
politeness
x/x
Noun
deceit
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Noun
indifference
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Noun
relation
x/x
Noun
undermining
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Noun
factitious
x/x
Adjective
insinuation
xxx/x
Noun
endeavouring
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Verb
acquiescence
xx/x
Noun
seeming
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Verb
plausibility
xx/xx
Noun
truthfulness
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Noun
rationality
xx/xx
Noun
partiality
xx/xx
Noun
hypocrisy
x/xx
Noun
accuse
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Verb
probity
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Noun
sophistry
x/x
Noun
phony
/x
Noun
unreality
xx/xx
Noun
consequence
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Noun
magnanimity
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Noun
assumption
x/x
Noun
mere
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Adjective
earnestness
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Noun
reproaching
x/x
Verb
mystification
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Noun
forsaking
x/x
Verb
coquetry
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Noun
instigation
xx/x
Noun
resorting
x/x
Verb
complicity
x/xx
Noun
misbehaviour
xx/x
Noun
moulding
/x
Noun
behaviour
x/x
Noun
misapprehension
xxx/x
Noun
confusion
x/x
Noun
indisposition
xxx/x
Noun
hypocritical
xx/xx
Adjective
humbug
/x
Noun
affectation
xx/x
Noun
impartiality
xxx/xx
Noun
hollowness
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Noun
equivocation
xxx/x
Noun
finality
x/xx
Noun
forfeiture
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Noun
prerogative
x/xx
Noun
frivolous
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Adjective
vain
/
Adjective
felicitous
x/xx
Adjective
impudent
x/x
Adjective
legality
x/xx
Noun
honouring
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Verb
neutrality
x/xx
Noun
deception
x/x
Noun
flimsy
/x
Adjective
completeness
x/x
Noun
infallibility
xxx/xx
Noun
paltry
/x
Adjective
civility
x/xx
Noun
alibi
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Noun, Verb
apology
x/xx
Noun
appearance
x/x
Noun
aspiration
xx/x
Noun
chance
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Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
claim
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Noun, Verb
cloak
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Noun, Verb
contention
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Noun
cover
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
desire
x/x
Noun, Verb
doubt
/
Noun, Verb
encroachment
x/x
Noun
excuse
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Noun, Verb
farce
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Noun, Verb
fiction
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Noun
hope
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Noun, Verb
intention
x/x
Noun, Verb
mannerism
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Noun
masquerade
xx/
Noun, Verb
mom
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
myth
/
Noun
pose
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Verb, Noun
prospect
/x
Noun, Verb
shew
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Verb, Noun
show
/
Verb, Noun
travesty
/xx
Noun, Verb
usurpation
xx/x
Noun
veneer
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Noun, Verb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
tell
/
Verb, Noun
expression
x/x
Noun
literally
/xxx
Adverb
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
sorta
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Adverb